10 NBA Players Who Jumped from High School to NBA: What If They Went to College?

With the Madness that is March, college basketball fever has officially taken its course throughout cubicles, car radios, cell phones and televisions.

Players like Draymond Green, Jared Sullinger, Harrison Barnes and Anthony Davis lead the way into what is possibly the greatest three weeks of sports all year.

So while the players play, I thought it'd be fun to suppose what the college basketball landscape would have been like had all the player who jumped directly from high school, been forced to attend at least one year in college.

If my memory serves me correctly, the "one-and-done" rule was put in place in 2006, and up until that point, several all-stars never made an appearance in a college arena.

Here's a look at how these players could have affected college basketball.

1. Shawn Kemp: 1988-1989 Indiana Hoosiers

Shawn Kemp, an Indiana high school superstar, just might have joined Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers during the fall of 1989.

After a burglary incident involving Kentucky, the school in which Kemp originally signed his letter of intent with, Knight could have taken a chance on the big man.

Indiana ran into Seton Hall in the Sweet 16, a game they would lose. However, if Shawn Kemp could have been throwing down, Indiana could have been the one eventually playing Michigan in the championship (Seton Hall lost to Michigan 80-79).

Glen Rice, the star of the tournament in 1989, won MVP and would join Shawn Kemp in the NBA years later.

Shawn Kemp ended his NBA career in 1999 with weight problems, pretty much putting a damper on an otherwise successful career.

10. Dwight Howard: 2004-2005 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

In the most intriguing of all of these fantasy college landing spots, Dwight Howard and Georgia Tech would have been the absolute perfect match. Howard was either headed there or UNC.

Dwight was coming out of Atlanta, and Georgia Tech was studded with Will Bynum and Jarrett Jack running the guard positions. This was just one year after the Yellow Jackets made the national title game, where they lost to UConn.